All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
Ancestors Quotes
Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.
Ancestors are initiators. Descendants too often are imitators.
She descended from a long line her mother listened to.
Heredity is nothing but stored environment.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
The cuckoo lays her eggs in another bird’s nest; it may be hatched among blackbirds or robins or thrushes, but it is always a cuckoo. A man cannot deliver himself from his ancestors.
They who depend on the merits of ancestors, search in the roots of the tree for the fruits which the branches ought to produce.
